Oh, I love all of this Pamela but especially this :
‘As seeds cultivate in
fertile soil, a sorceress spoons
fortune on root’s anthology …’
Why don’t you also link it to Mary’s Poetry Jam prompt on Rivers of life, today too?

Yeah, Brian, must be from all the years of sporting and physical activities that finally caught up with me. I have two vertebra in my neck out of alignment. It was painful until I went to the doc and he prescribed some meds and this awful neck brace. 15 days of the neck brace seems like an eternity. Thanks for the kind comment.

I like the images in your poem–the foods and the river. I love sweet potatoes. They are good raw too–or maybe I am thinking of yams. Sorry to hear you neck is out of whack. All that does seem to eventually catch up with us.

I love thinking of the river as moon-colored. So many beautiful images flowed forth in your poem, Pamela. I am glad that Bren directed you to Poetry Jam. Hope you will visit us other weeks too when you can!

Pamelita, this was so rich in imagery, I could smell the cantaloupe! As we are in a drought here in the Midwest, I was despairing, but this brought me hope – and a HUGE thunderstorm broke out tonight, drenching the grass, turning some of it instantly green from the hay-like stasis in which it was suspended… amazing, how much of nature and loveliness you caught in this poem. Amy

Sorry to see you have neck problems Pamela. I do too and was in one of those neck braces for a year. Thankfully I was able to take it off and give myself a break as and when. But, I was 21 and told by a hospital doctor it was due to ‘wear and tear’ … I do hope yours improves speedily, with rest.

the way you express yourself is very clear, i understand it very well.

I am sorry I don’t. I cannot understand what you are heading at.

A cantaloupe stains the kitchen floor;
sweet potatoes, potassium-rich,
wait to be sliced

What is a “cantaloupe”? What relation does this thing, staining the kitchen floor, have with slicing potatoes? It is, to say the least, unclear. And what is the point of the slicing of potatoes? Is that what you do when you read or write?

Thanks so much for your encouraging words, Barbie aka Anders Woje Ellingsen. Google the word “cantaloupe”, then you will find out what it is … Do you encourage “Adultery”?
Have you ever heard of METAPHOR?????¿¿¿¿¿

“Maybe your words was better understood if the reader knew you and was familiar with what occupied you at the moment. But a poem this is not.”

Correction: would be better understood, if the reader knew you and “were” familiar with what occupied you at the moment.

Oh, by the way this is my poem, yes, that is what I call it. However, if you do not like it, why bother leaving a snarky remark? Do you feel better, Barbie?